Douglas Waldmann On Tapas & More!

GOOD FOOD! GOOD MUSIC! GOOD FUN!
Tapas are simply different kinds of food served in small portions.As a result of their informal and creative potential,Tapas are as varied as the Chefs who create them.To eat Tapas-style is to eat by whim,free from rules and schedules...ideal for those who love to have a good time,while enjoying good food.

Cab Calloway and Irving Mills(The Blues Brothers). Irving Mills(1894-1985) was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name Joe Primrose. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919. Although not a musician himself(he did sing),Irving had his own recording group called Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang.Cab Calloway(1907-1994) was a famous American jazz singer and band leader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s.

Lately I have been listening to a lot of old Jazz and Blues recordings, one of my favorites is Mississippi John Hurt. Raised in Avalon Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age 9. He spent much of his youth playing old time music and earning a living as a farm hand in the 1920s. In 1963 a folk musicologist named Tom Hoskins encouraged him to move to Washington DC,and began to perform on a wider stage. Check out some of these recordings from the late 1920s.

Outstanding in the Field - HOMEOutstanding in the Field is a roving culinary advendture-literally a restaurant without walls.Chef Jim Denevans idea is to re-connect diners to the land and the origins of their food, and to honor the local farmers and food artisans who cultivate it.Check out some of the photographs in the gallery, They are truly stunning.